Tag: Cladding
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‘Our model delivers an effective cladding remediation programme’
Clarion Housing’s post-Grenfell strategy has been commended by Dame Judith Hackitt. Will Mann talks to the group’s building safety team about cladding remediation, quality management and the power of data. “Of our 10,000 buildings, almost 9,000 used half-brick or brick slips as the predominant material. The risk posed by certain materials was more concentrated in a…
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Government cladding remediation plan ‘lacks ambition’, says MPs’ watchdog
The government’s plan to fix all unsafe high-rises in government-funded schemes by the end of 2029 “lacks ambition”, parliament’s spending watchdog has concluded. A Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report said the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Remediation Acceleration Plan fails to address the impact of non–cladding defects on progress with cladding remediation. The…
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Is the Building Safety Act slowing the pace of cladding remediation?
Meanwhile, Vista Tower in Stevenage has so far been the subject of two separate FTT decisions. The first, DLUHC v Grey GR Limited Partnership granted the government’s application for a remediation order against Grey, the railway workers’ pension fund. The second, Grey GR Limited Partnership v Edgewater (Stevenage) Limited and others, determined Grey’s application for…